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I am currently undergoing training with a local contractor to do beach clean up on the current spill. I have to admit, I seem to like this stuff and I'm considering a career change into the hazmat/saftey field. I really like the idea of a job that keeps folks from getting hurt. Is anybody here currently involved in the field or has been in the past? Any suggestions? Talk at the training center is they are going to make me a supervisor, so I should be around till this thing plays out and I want to be ready for my next step.
 
Awesome. sounds like you've found a calling. I've never been involved myself, but I wish you the best in your endeavors.
 
kellysguy said:
I am currently undergoing training with a local contractor to do beach clean up on the current spill. I have to admit, I seem to like this stuff and I'm considering a career change into the hazmat/saftey field.
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geez, I guess it sucks that it's capped eh? :whistle: :devilgrin:
 
JPSmit said:
kellysguy said:
I am currently undergoing training with a local contractor to do beach clean up on the current spill. I have to admit, I seem to like this stuff and I'm considering a career change into the hazmat/saftey field.
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geez, I guess it sucks that it's capped eh? :whistle: :devilgrin:
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Capped.....for now.....but the clean up will be on going for an undetermined time....
 
Silverghost said:
JPSmit said:
kellysguy said:
I am currently undergoing training with a local contractor to do beach clean up on the current spill. I have to admit, I seem to like this stuff and I'm considering a career change into the hazmat/saftey field.
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geez, I guess it sucks that it's capped eh? :whistle: :devilgrin:
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Capped.....for now.....but the clean up will be on going for an undetermined time....
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I don't expect it to be cleaned up in my lifetime. :wall:
 
The marsh won't be but the beach is a breeze.Gonna be working 7-12's or possible 14's so y'all won't be hearing from me for quite a while. My buddy there went 32 days without a day off. It's just a spring board for something else. I had to find a way to ride out the bad economy here. This seems like the best way and the spill probably made the job market worse. I can't see this thing playing out anytime soon. Who knows how long this stuff will be comming in. MS beaches aren't a problem, but south LA marshes will be tainted forever I think.


I'd love to do my own thing again, but it's not possible right now.
 
Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure is located in Baton Rouge. I worked for them at one time, but I don't know how their workload is now.
 
anthony7777 said:
kellysguy, you might want to first find out how it effected the people that helped in the alaska exxon valdez spill. :yesnod:
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+1 was listening to an interview about how some folk up there still can't even put gas in their car tanks for the damage it does lungs from inhaling VOC's at the time.
 
anthony7777 said:
jpsmith, thats my point, i was just trying to let him down easy like. :wink:
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I realized. I heard a frightening interview on CBC not to long ago. Apparently much of the ongoing effects are the result of the fact that the environmental protection liability legislation explicitly excludes cold and flus. Unfortunately many of the issues caused by the various inhalates present with the symptoms of colds and flus.
 
The stuff we are picking up is SEVERLY weathered oil (tar balls) off of sand beaches that are open and people are swimming in the water. Not a whole lot of it either. It's not the fresh-out-the-hole stuff in south LA. I aint no dummmy, you couldn't pay me enough to pick up the bad stuff. I'm a supervisor and won't be comming in direct contact with it. I heard it tastes like chicken, but won't be testing it for myself.

MS just started getting tar balls on shore, so this stuff has been out there for almost 3 months by the time it washes in over here.

My sis is a marine biologist in FL. They just got back from a two week deep water gulf sampling trip and she said no big game fish in the affected area. They were getting good samples (#'s) from cleaner water though. She hopes and thinks the fish just vacated the affected areas and weren't killed off.
 
What I'm considering is being a saftey guy at a local plant or Stennis Space Center after this has played out. I've seen allot of idiots do stupid things on job sites and get other folks hurt.

I've gone the money chasin' route, but wasn't totally satisfied with it. I want to do something worth while; something that matters and makes a difference. When I'm old, I don't want to feel like I'v e wasted my life on chasing money. If a can keep someone's father, son, husband or daddy from getting hurt on the job, to me, it's been a life well spent. Law enforcement isn't me, don't have the stomach for EMT, heat bothers me too much for fire fighting and I'm too old and married to join the service. This saftey gig just seems right to me.

One thing's for sure, aint no pride in being a used car dealer!!!

Saftey is something I can really get behind...who wouldn't....an IDIOT....THAT'S WHO!!! I know they are out there and that's why I want to do this.

One'a my church kid's lost her Dad 'cause someone did something stupid, so it's kinda personal.
 
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